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100 1 _aEddy, Walter Hollis,
_d1877-1959
245 1 4 _aThe Vitamine Manual
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2005
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2005-04-01
508 _aProduced by Juliet Sutherland, Richard Prairie, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team
520 _a"The Vitamine Manual" by Walter H. Eddy is a scientific publication likely written in the early 20th century. The book aims to present essential data about vitamins, exploring their production, identification, and role in nutrition, catering both to students of physiological chemistry and the general public. The opening of the book introduces the significance of vitamins, beginning with the historical context of their discovery, notably by Casimir Funk in 1911. It discusses the urgent need for concise information in light of the overwhelming body of research on vitamins, especially their implications for human health and nutrition. Eddy summarizes early investigations into vitamins linked to diseases like beri-beri and emphasizes the importance of vitamins in reforming nutritional concepts, outlining the foundational research that led to the acceptance of vitamins as necessary dietary components. The initial chapters outline various experiments and observations that contributed to current understandings of vitamins, highlighting key figures and their contributions to the scientific community. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aVitamins
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7983
999 _c49968
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